Wolfgang Kaltenegger

Wolfgang runs his own turnaround and interim management consultancy.

Leading a business aligned with its customer value proposition and delivering financial results is his passion.

He has experience in reorganisation and turnaround as interim CEO, CFO, VP Finance and Controller.
Industry experience: Manufacturing, Automotive, Hospital & Healthcare, Construction, Biogas / RNG.
Financial reporting expertise: US-GAAP (CPA), IFRS, Austrian GAAP

INTERIM (Group) CFO, CFO, Controller; Managing Director of small and midsized companies, Turnaround, Reorganisation, Recovery

M&A Consulting e.g., in the Green energy sector, in the Biogas / Biomethane / RNG gas sector

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Wolfgang Kaltenegger has many years of international experience in the successful management of industrial companies in Europe and the USA. He has gained his management experience both as CFO of large corporations and as sole managing director of small and medium-sized companies.

His restructuring and turnaround expertise has been successfully applied in strategic realignments, both as a consultant and as a hands-on implementer.

In the automotive supply industry, he was CFO of Magna companies for 10 years in Europe and the USA, where he led the restructuring of a large powertrain division in the USA. As CFO of Fresenius-Vamed, he achieved top financial results in the medical equipment services and hospital construction sectors.  He has successfully led turnaround situations in subsidiaries in several European countries.

As a consultant, he worked very hard for more than 10 years with PricewaterhouseCooopers both in Boston, USA (US-CPA) and in Vienna. He also managed several years consulting teams at Grant Thornton in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where he was responsible for the advising of industrial clients and was able to further expand the consulting business.

In the course of his career, he has accompanied and managed numerous M&A transactions on both the buy and the sell side. As the responsible CFO, he was not only responsible for the successful completion of numerous due diligences, company valuations, negotiations and deals, but also for the post-merger integration.

His expertise also includes assisting companies in crisis situations with strategic realignment, restructuring and financing. He has successfully completed numerous turnarounds and restructurings.

His family background in a medium-sized construction company has fostered his entrepreneurial thinking and shaped his operational skills from an early age.

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